Member Calendar JUL SEP A new MoMA Jul-Sep 2019 opens in October Greetings from 53rd Street, which has been a beehive of activity! Even as we installed our fantastic spring exhibitions, we were working behind the scenes in all corners of the museum to prepare to bring you a reimagined MoMA experience. While construction continues on our expansive new ground-floor spaces, including a gracious lobby, flagship MoMA Store, and more, the entire team has been working diligently to prepare our just-completed galleries for art installation. The process of installing almost 170,000 square feet of gallery space in advance of our October reopening is a challenging one, and before we’re through, we will move 6,000 artworks between the frame shop, conservation, and storage; construct 1,550 frames; and place almost 100 bespoke benches in our galleries and public spaces to allow for moments of reflection and pause. And all in 116 days! With over 40,000 square feet of additional space, the galleries will showcase the depth and breadth of our collection, bringing modern masterpieces and contemporary works alike into dialogues that offer fresh perspectives, stories, and voices. We’ll mix all the mediums that we collect in displays that better reflect the ways that artists think and work. Innovative spaces for live performance, conversations, and workshops will offer meaningful ways to engage with the art on view. As a member, you’ll be the very first to experience our transformed space. I can’t wait to show you everything we’ve been working on, and look forward to seeing you at the new MoMA in October. Sarah Suzuki Director, Opening of the new Museum, and Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints Young Architects Program 15 MoMA through Time 4–5 Highlights Warm Up 16–17 The Year Ahead 6–9 MOOD 18 Member Benefits 10–11 Books 30–31 Explore the history of MoMA and MoMA PS1 through a MoMA through Time new website that highlights over 100 moments—from the Museum’s 1929 founding by three visionary women to the opening of the new Museum this October. Discover these stories and more at moma.org/momathroughtime. René d'Harnoncourt. Hand-drawn circulation plan of the exhibition Timeless Aspects of Modern Art (1948) 1949–68 Installation view of the exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art The Art of Installation 1939 René d’Harnoncourt, the Museum’s director Picasso’s Protest from 1949 to 1968, revolutionized the way exhibitions were conceived, thinking deeply In 1939, just as World War II was starting, about the visitor’s experience. Pablo Picasso hung his monumental antiwar painting Guernica, and left it at the Museum for 38 years. The Forty Part Motet installed in the new “Kunsthalle” at MoMA PS1 2001 Left to right: Richard Oldenburg, Director of the Museum, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, President, Board of Trustees, Mourning 9/11 at Artforum cover from October 1976 accepting an honorary Oscar from Gregory Peck Firemen fight a blaze at the Museum, April 15, 1958. © AP/Wide World P.S.1 with Janet Photos. Source image provided by AP/Wide World Photos 1975 1979 Cardiff’s The Forty 1958 The Birth of P.S.1 And the Oscar Part Motet MoMA on Fire In 1975, curator Alanna Heiss secured a Goes To…MoMA lease on a vacant public school in Long In response to the September 11 attacks, On April 15, 1958, a fire broke out on the Island City, Queens, saving the building In 1979, the Museum was awarded an Janet Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet opened second floor, quickly engulfing the building; from demolition and repurposing it Academy Award recognizing MoMA’s a month in advance of her exhibition, all but a few pieces emerged unscathed. to show hundreds of artworks in the “contributions to the public’s perception providing a space for visitors and staff to coming years. of movies as an art form.” reflect and mourn. 4 5 Betye Saar The Legends of Black Girl’s Window Opens Oct 21 The Museum of Modern Art, The Year Floor 2 Celebrating the recent acquisition of 42 rare, early works on paper, this exhibition Ahead: explores the relation between Saar's experimental print practice and the artistic language she debuted in the iconic, Fall 2019– autobiographical assemblage Black Girl’s Window (1969). Spring 2020 Betye Saar. Black Girl’s Window. 1969. Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurine, 35 3/4 × 18 × 1 1/2" (90.8 × 45.7 × 3.8 cm). Gift of Candace King Weir through The Modern Women’s Fund, and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. © 2019 Betye Saar, courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles When we reopen in October the Museum will be transformed. In our collection galleries, you’ll still find Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, but we’ll also mix mediums Sur moderno and highlight more work by women and artists from Journeys of diverse backgrounds and geographies. Abstraction— The Patricia You’ll also see this new approach in our exhibitions, from Phelps de a celebration of modern Latin American art to 11 watershed installations by living artists from the past Cisneros Gift Opens Oct 21 20 years to explorations of artists Betye Saar and Pope.L. The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 3 Here are just a few of the highlights—we can’t wait to Discover the transformative share it all with you. power of abstraction in Brazil, María Freire. Untitled. 1954. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 × 48 1/16" (92 × 122 cm). Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Venezuela, Argentina, and Caribbean Fund in honor of Gabriel Pérez-Barreiror As a member, you’ll experience everything first. Uruguay, where artists Enjoy Early Access every day, After Hours viewings, and reinvented the art object itself and the role of art in social Member Previews and Last Looks for all exhibitions. renewal. 6 7 member Dorothea Lange Pope.L, 1978– Words & Pictures Opens Feb 9 2001 Member Previews: Feb 6–8 Opens Oct 21 The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 3 The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 3 Bringing together iconic works Witness career-defining with rarely seen photographs— performances from Pope.L from early work on the streets of (b. 1955), a provocateur whose San Francisco to photo-essays for practice across multiple LIFE magazine to her landmark Pope.L. The Great White Way, 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street. 2000–09. Performance. mediums—including © Pope. L. Courtesy of the artists and Mitchell – Innes & Nash, New York photobook An American Exodus— performance, painting, this exhibition traces Lange’s drawing, installation, theater, interest in the power of art to raise and video—uses abjection, public awareness and connect to humor, endurance, and intimate narratives in the world. absurdity to undermine rigid systems of belief. Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 11 1/8 × 8 9/16" (28.3 × 21.8 cm). Purchase Surrounds 11 Installations Opens Oct 21 The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 6 Spanning the entire sixth floor, this exhibition presents Judd individualized, immersive Opens Mar 1 experiences by contemporary Member Previews: Feb 27–29 The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 6 artists including Shelia Hicks, Hito Steyerl, and Janet Cardiff Explore the remarkable vision of and George Bures Miller. Dayanita Singh. Museum of Chance. 2013. 162 pigmented inkjet prints and teak structures. Variable dimensions. Acquired with support from The Donald Judd, an artist who Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The Modern Women’s Fund, and Committee on Photography Fund. © 2019 Dayanita revolutionized the language of Singh, courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery sculpture—from his early expressionist paintings to his hollow boxes and stacks made with metals and plastics to his Donald Judd. Untitled. 1991. Enameled aluminum, 59" × 24' 7 1/4" × 65" (150 × 750 × 165 cm). Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler and gift of Abby extensive engagement with color. Aldrich Rockefeller (both by exchange) and gift of Kathy Fuld, Agnes Gund, Patricia Cisneros, Doris Fisher, Mimi Haas, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Emily Spiegel. © 2019 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 8 9 Summer Member Benefits Buy one, get one at the New York Botanical Garden Member Buy one ticket, get one free for the exhibition After Hours at Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, on view through September 28 at MoMA PS1 the New York Botanical Garden. Wed, Jul 24 & Wed, Aug 14, 6:30–9:00 p.m. Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) was a force of Image courtesy Rooftop Films nature in Brazil, known for his bold landscapes, We’re keeping MoMA PS1 open late just for vibrant art, and passionate commitment to members. See all the current exhibitions, plant conservation. His powerful modernist including Simone Fattal: Works and Days, Half off Rooftop vision produced thousands of gardens and explore this year’s Young Architects Program landscapes, including the famous curving winner, and enjoy drinks under the stars in Films mosaic walkways at Copacabana Beach in Rio the courtyard. All galleries will be open and Tierra Whack performs at Warm Up 2018. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1. Photo: Brandon Polanco and the beautiful rooftop garden at Banco educators will be on hand to offer insights While our theaters are temporarily closed, Safra in São Paulo. Feel his artistic energy and on the art. you’ll have access to a range of films through love of plants during a Garden-wide exhibition Half off Warm Up the Rooftop Films Summer Series.